.50 MAPLC SUGAR. 



horse is almost exclusively used for the convey- 

 ance of commodities a distance. 



Every diminution of expense in transportation, 

 will add so much to the profits of the farmer and 

 manufacturer. Hence manufacturers will be en- 

 abled to sell their fabrics at a low price, and to 

 this canal I look for the resurrection and firm es- 

 tablishment of the manufacturing interest of the 

 State. 



I saw for the first time the famous acer saccha- 

 rinum, or sugar maple. It grows spontaneously 

 like all other trees of the forest, and is a most 

 beautiful and stately tree. It is said that each 

 tree will produce from three to five pounds o^ 

 sugar. An acre will contain 30 trees, and a tree 

 will be fit for use in 15 years, and will probably 

 continue so for two centuries. An orchard of 

 ten acres would produce annually two hogsheads 

 and a half of sugar, which can be made as good 

 in all respects as the produce of the cane or the 

 sweet beet. I speak from ocular observation and 

 from taste. Mon. Le Ray, a very respectable 

 and sensible land holder in Jefferson county, 

 shewed me at Washington-Hall, in New- York, a 

 sample of maple sugar, which I have never seen 

 excelled, and which was raised on his estates in 

 that county ; and I have been told by Mr. George 

 Parish, a most accomplished and public spirited 



